Maintaining soil productivity as the key factor in European prehistoric and Medieval farming

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F21%3A00538923" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/21:00538923 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00027006:_____/21:10174523 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10430215

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X20304247?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X20304247?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102633" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102633</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Maintaining soil productivity as the key factor in European prehistoric and Medieval farming

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The study presents nitrogen isotope data from prehistoric and Medieval charred cereal grains and grains from modern experiments in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The results are consistent with δ15N values of cereals from other European countries. Various crops were manured differently, perhaps according to specific societal needs. Surprisingly, the highest (but also the lowest) δ15N value is found in barley. In modern experiments, means of fertilisation other than farmyard manure were tested. Based on these findings, and on soil analysis and prehistoric settlement activity observed within an agricultural landscape, we propose an alternative method for maintaining soil productivity by the periodic movement of fields within the settlement areas into places intensively fertilised by abandoned habitation areas, and vice versa. The results of the isotopic analysis of more than 700 archaeobotanical samples of cereal grains from Europe show that the improvement and maintenance of good soil productivity by adding organic material has been practised everywhere, to a greater or lesser extent, since the very beginnings of agricultural history, and confirm the high level of skill in prehistoric and Early Medieval farming practices.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Maintaining soil productivity as the key factor in European prehistoric and Medieval farming

Popis výsledku anglicky

The study presents nitrogen isotope data from prehistoric and Medieval charred cereal grains and grains from modern experiments in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The results are consistent with δ15N values of cereals from other European countries. Various crops were manured differently, perhaps according to specific societal needs. Surprisingly, the highest (but also the lowest) δ15N value is found in barley. In modern experiments, means of fertilisation other than farmyard manure were tested. Based on these findings, and on soil analysis and prehistoric settlement activity observed within an agricultural landscape, we propose an alternative method for maintaining soil productivity by the periodic movement of fields within the settlement areas into places intensively fertilised by abandoned habitation areas, and vice versa. The results of the isotopic analysis of more than 700 archaeobotanical samples of cereal grains from Europe show that the improvement and maintenance of good soil productivity by adding organic material has been practised everywhere, to a greater or lesser extent, since the very beginnings of agricultural history, and confirm the high level of skill in prehistoric and Early Medieval farming practices.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF16_019%2F0000728" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000728: Výzkum ultrastopových izotopů a jejich využití v sociálních a environmentálních vědách urychlovačovou hmotnostní spektrometrií</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

ISSN

2352-409X

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

February

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

102633

Kód UT WoS článku

000680077800001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85098723979